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13 mar 2021 · Violet Bonham-Carter in 1915. After her father’s elevation to the peerage as Earl of Oxford and Asquith in 1925 she was known by the courtesy title “Lady Violet.” Long active in Liberal Party politics, she was elevated to a life peerage as Baroness Asquith of Yanbury in 1964.
Bonham-Carter was also governor of the BBC (1940–46) and the Old Vic (1945), and she was the first woman to give the Romanes lecture at Oxford in 1963. Created a Dame of the British Empire (DBE) in 1953 and created baroness in 1964, she published Winston Churchill as I Knew Him in 1965. Bonham-Carter, Violet (1887–1969)British peer.
2 apr 2021 · Violet, my grandmother, was exactly—I would have been her age when the second World War happened.” So, in working on this project, the actor said, “I met her almost as a peer.” Lady Violet Bonham Carter, Bonham Carter’s paternal grandmother, was a feminist and liberal politician whose life straddled two world wars.
Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, DBE, known until her marriage as Violet Asquith, was a British politician and diarist. She was the daughter of H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister from 1908–1916, and later became active in Liberal politics herself, being a leading opponent of appeasement, standing for Parliament and being made a life peer.
25 apr 2023 · 3 Mark Pottle, ed., Champion Redoubtable : The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham-Carter (London: Weidenfeld, 1998). Agreement with Lloyd George didn’t last after WSC became First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911. He then demanded increased spending to counter Germany’s naval build-up.
Carter, (Helen) Violet Bonham [née (Helen) Violet Asquith], Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury (1887–1969), politician, was born on 15 April 1887 at Eton House in John Street, Hampstead, London, the only daughter and the fourth of the five children of Herbert Henry Asquith, later first earl of Oxford and Asquith (1852–1928), and his wife, Helen Kelsall, née Melland (1854–1891).
Violet Bonham-Carter, grandmother to actress Helena Bonham-Carter, was a close friend of Churchill for most of her life. She offers her own personal view of Churchill for 'whatever it is worth' and does not claim it to be a in depth analysis of the man, or a comprehensive history of his life and work.
- Violet Bonham Carter
